On Saturday, President Trump confirmed that he is considering a new family separation policy at the U.S.-Mexico border again because he believes the administration’s earlier move to separate migrant children from parents was an effective restraint to illegal crossings. Trump said to the Washington Post that the high number of illegal crossings is a terrible situation and that family separations will most likely help scare away some undocumented migrants from entering the United States. He surely states, that if immigrants know Trump will separate them then people won’t come, and says the reason they even immigrate in the first place is because of the United States' prosperous economy. What Trump says he dislikes is people using random children to immigrate; in many cases, the children isn’t even theirs. It was then when he commented that the people coming in are really bad, especially for using children for their use and then throwing them away. The Department of Homeland Security officials also stated the 38 percent increase in the number of migrants arrested and charged for illegally crossing the border this past August. The Post first reported Friday that the White House was actively considering plans to again separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border. Senior administration officials noted, however, that they are not planning to revive the chaotic forced separations carried out by the Trump administration in June, which produced an enormous political reactions and led to a court order to reunite families. In conclusion, one option under consideration, according to the report, is for the government to detain asylum-seeking families together for up to 20 days, then give parents a choice: Stay in family detention with their child for months or years as their immigration case proceeds, or allow children to be taken to a government shelter so other relatives or guardians can seek custody.
By Isabel G. Torres
By Isabel G. Torres
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